[geeks] # of machines running currently

[Ross Alexander]

> > Gateway 486 motherboard w/pentium 80(?) overdrive cpu running OpenBSD -
> > Firewall, NAT box connected to DSL & Cable modems
> 
> How do y'all manage to get 486s going as routers?  My experience trying to set
> up my AST as a router was miserable.  I just couldn't get it work work with
> any 2 NICs at once (several off brand NE2ks, and 2 different versions of the
> 3COM 3c509).  After all that hassle I decided to just give up and buy myself a
> second NIC for a SS2, adding it was child's play.

The NE2k clones are notorious on OpenBSD lists for giving trouble. I was
lucky at first that I had some 3c509s to play with. Once I turned off
PNP (something I was doing long before I'd even heard of *BSD) and
sorted out some IRQ problems, I had no problem.


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Ross Alexander
rossalexander at usa.net